Home Forums Hunting & Shooting General Big Game What is your best and worst camp grub?

This is tough, I guess when I used my sock fore a filter on the morn coffie. The best is easy, brook trout on a freash cut willow and a open fire ho my!

yep. Fresh trout fried in butter with potatoes and onions.

or in Canada shore lunch of fresh walleye and or pike with potatoes, onions.

I enjoy bannock bread too when camping.

Done fresh grouse a couple different ways, usually add it to something pre prepared like mountain house or something canned.

Sorry exbiologist but just what is mountain house?

Worse, cup a' noodles, but I don't think I've ever not finished one at a campsite.

Best, usually involve fresh abalone or spiney lobster.. Probably the most memorable was linguini and clam sauce made from pismo clams found on a deserted beach about 1/2 way down baja, with a 12 foot swell peeling long right lines down the point on the north of the bay.

Mountain house is freeze dried camp food that you add hot water to and chow.. if we are talking about the same thing. Their beef stew held me over freezing wedding tackle off on a bivvy hunt this year.

Thanks Tanner crap I had a moment!

Fresh sheep steaks.

Worst: Most anything freeze dried.
Best: Grouse breast with granny-smith apple slice inside, a couple strips of bacon wrapped around the outside, tinfoil wrapped and tossed in the coals to cook. Served with fried spuds and onions, thick crusty loaf, butter and washed down with an ice cold Canadian. Toss in some hot,fresh Saskatoon berry pie and you have heaven in the bush!

Best: Ribeyes from our local butcher and fried potatoes.

Worst: Ran out of food on a canoe trip and cooked a small mouth over an open fire with no seasoning.

T-bone and oat meal. The latter is banned on all trips except on those commercial outings where there are weight limits on gear/grub.

Bingo. Sheep tenderloin sliced into kaboobs, sprinkled with salt. roasted on willow sticks over a willow/alder fire after 5 days of short rations.

You just ain't gonna beat that!

Worst? 1949 dated army K-rations Chef-boy-ar-de spagetti and meatball, eaten in '69 on an Idaho fire which we had put out and had to camp on for 24 hours to be sure it was dead. And no one had matches or a lighter...so we had to eat them cold- we'd put out the damned fire and couldn't find a hot spot anywhere! The soda biscuits we threw out in the woods, figuring the squirrels would eat them. NOT! The day after we were back at the Ranger Station, the District Ranger flew the remote fire site, and on his return, asked us about all those white spots around the outside of the fire-line. We told him "mushrooms" - it had rained lightly, and those soda biscuits hat swelled to about 5 inches high and 7 or 8 inches in diameter...

These same rations had -if I recall correctly - a cherry desert that had caused several cases of Tomaine poisioning. It was the best part of those rations!

Worst meal was elk ribs, I never had them before and never will again! Best was elk pepper steak over rice!

The best-- pot of chili slow cooked with a side dish of beans.

The worst-- pot of chili made by a fool that had no idea what chili was and a side of beans made by the same fool who didn't know how to cook beans.

In my younger days when we ruffed it..talking tents,Coleman stoves/heaters in occasional early November Sandhill blizzards anything hot was good grub.One of the guys always brought canned sardines and mixed em with oyster crackers which had to be the worst vile concoction for cold hungry hunters! Still can't stand to smell those damn things.

We don't make a habit of eating poorly in the field, or anywhere else. The worst was probably C-rats, though they really are not bad. Best? Well, at the end of elk camp we mixed together all the leftovers from the previous 10 days in a single pot and warmed it up. Everyone in camp loved it. It mmight not have beat the fresh venison steaks we had the first night in camp but it was darn good! We washed it down with plenty of Ranier beer.

Overall, it is tough to beat a ribeye or other such well-marbled beefsteak seasoned correctly and seared medium rare over a hardwood fire. It is, and always will be, a favorite in my family.

In the beer threads I never see mention of Ranier beer. It is what we drank in Idaho elk camp and we thought it was pretty good. Not craft/micro good, but pretty good. Does anyone else drink Ranier beer?

Like Big Red, we don't eat poorly. I refuse to eat anything that is made with hot water and you eat it out of plastic bag.Pure laziness. I always have a can of Spam in camp.When It gets to the point that I would have to open that, it is time to go home

That's funny right there.

I like spam. It contains both of the important food groups - salt and fat.

Best - Chili with beans, if you're not sharing a tent.

Worst - Chili with beans, if you are sharing a tent.

If you really want to spice up the tent, add copius amounts of garlic to the chili con frijoles. WHEW-EE!